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Re: Why do we have perl and sed versions of Gen_dummy_probes?

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>

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From: ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker )
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2021-05-06T10:13:28Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:

> I tried to regenerate Gen_dummy_probes.pl using s2p - which doesn't seem
> to exist for modern versions of perl anymore :(

It still exists, it's just not part of the core Perl distribution any
more (since 5.22, released in 2015):

  https://metacpan.org/pod/perl5220delta#find2perl,-s2p-and-a2p-removal
  https://metacpan.org/release/App-s2p.

You can install it with `cpan App::s2p`.


- ilmari
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Commits

  1. Tweak generation of Gen_dummy_probes.pl

  2. Add a README and Makefile recipe for Gen_dummy_probes.pl

  3. Remove dependency on psed for MSVC builds.